 | Henry Adams - 1890 - 492 էջ
...American authority to the charge of exaggeration. " Every morning at daybreak," according to his story,1 " we set about arresting the progress of all the vessels...ship that was running in heave to, or wait until we bad leisure to send a boat on board ' to see,' in our lingo, ' what she was made of.' I have frequently... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1899 - 478 էջ
...indirectly, has enough to answer for ! . . . Every morning, at daybreak, during our stay off New York, we set about arresting the progress of all the vessels we saw, as a midshipman on board the " Leander"; in 18o6 he was transferred to the " Leopard." His work, largely... | |
 | John Pancoast Gordy - 1900 - 634 էջ
...New York in 1805 and 1806, gave an account of their methods. " Every morning at daybreak," he said, " we set about arresting the progress of all the vessels...to, or wait until we had leisure to send a boat on board'to see,'in our lingo, 'what she was made of.' I have frequently known a dozen and sometimes a... | |
 | French Ensor Chadwick - 1915 - 312 էջ
..."Every morning at daybreak during our stay off New York we set about arresting the progress of all vessels we saw, firing off guns to the right and left,...dozen, and sometimes a couple of dozen ships, lying to, a league or two off the port, losing their fair wind, their tide and, worse than all, their market,... | |
 | French Ensor Chadwick - 1915 - 336 էջ
..."Every morning at daybreak during our stay off New York we set about arresting the progress of all vessels we saw, firing off guns to the right and left,...dozen, and sometimes a couple of dozen ships, lying to, a league or two off the port, losing their fair wind, their tide and, worse than all, their market,... | |
 | French Ensor Chadwick - 1915 - 314 էջ
..."Every morning at daybreak during our stay off New York we set about arresting the progress of all vessels we saw, firing off guns to the right and left,...dozen, and sometimes a couple of dozen ships, lying to, a league or two off the port, losing their fair wind, their tide and, worse than all, their market,... | |
 | Allen Johnson - 1921 - 376 էջ
...Hall, who in after years described the activities of this execrated frigate. Every morning at daybreak, we set about arresting the progress of all the vessels...of." I have frequently known a dozen, and sometimes 1 Professor William E. Lingelbach in a notable article on "England and Neutral Trade" in The Military... | |
 | Allen Johnson - 1921 - 386 էջ
...Hall, who in after years described the activities of this execrated frigate. Every morning at daybreak, we set about arresting the progress of all the vessels...of." I have frequently known a dozen, and sometimes 1 Professor William E. Lingelbach in a notable article on "England and Neutral Trade" in The Military... | |
 | 1921 - 612 էջ
...Hall, who in after years described the activities of this execrated frigate. Every morning at daybreak, we set about arresting the progress of all the vessels...of." I have frequently known a dozen, and sometimes 1 Professor William E. Lingelbach in a notable article on " England and Neutral Trade" in The Military... | |
 | Ian W Toll - 2006 - 614 էջ
...One of the Leander's midshipmen, Basil Hall, described how it was done: Every morning at daybreak, we set about arresting the progress of all the vessels...right and left to make every ship that was running in heave-to, or wait until we had leisure to send a boat on board "to see," in our lingo, "what she was... | |
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Every morning at daybreak during our stay off New York we set about arresting the progress of all vessels we saw, firing off guns to the right and left, to make every ship that was running in heave to, or wait until we had leisure to send a boat on board... 
